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Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia Volume 3
Contemporary Appalachia
Av Gilbert Allen, Maggie Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
380 kr
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“The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III, second edition, edited with passion and precision, in collaboration with Texas Review Press, transcends the stereotypes surrounding Appalachia, revealing the true diversity and complexity of Appalachia’s poetic voices. Commitment to showcasing the rich …
I Am One of You Forever
A Novel
Häftad, 1987
380 kr
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Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family - father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and …
Midquest
A Poem
Häftad, 1989
316 kr
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Together now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain, and Earthsleep counterpoint one another in a grand symphony, Midquest. In what he has referred to as ""something like a verse novel,"" Fred Chappell has summoned up the rich veins of memory and brings this to bear on the contemporary …
Familiars
Poems
Häftad, 2014
247 kr
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Solitary, graceful, and contemplative, cats have inspired poets from Charles Baudelaire to Margaret Atwood to serve as their chroniclers and celebrants. They have appeared, wrapped in their inscrutability, in verse both sensual and spiritual, weary and whimsical. With Familiars, Fred Chappell …
Ever After
Poems
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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In his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal collection that unearths connections both strong and tenuous among apparently disparate subjects, all …
Fred Chappell Reader
E-bok, 2013
224 kr
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Fred Chappell is one of our most brilliant and versatile authors, with many novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry to his credit. This anthology bears witness to the scope of his career: a rich body of narrative and lyrical fictions ranging over history, mythology, science, philosophy, and …
Way of Happening
Observations of Contemporary Poetry
E-bok, 2013
194 kr
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One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more established authors, including Alfred Corn, …
Castle Tzingal
A Poem
Häftad, 1984
249 kr
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With this poem, Fred Chappell takes his readers far from the southern landscape and familiar passions of his acclaimed Midquest tetralogy. He tells instead of a forbidding medieval castle ruled by a mad king and peopled by bitter, scheming grotesques and melancholy weaklings who cower at the sound …
Source
Poems
Häftad, 1985
249 kr
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In a noteworthy career Fred Chappell has created a body of verse that will likely endure as long as the North Carolina mountains that are the setting of so many of his poems. In such works as the tetralogy Midquest and the long poem Castle Tzingal, Chappell has shown himself to be a master of his …
First and Last Words
Poems
Häftad, 1989
249 kr
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Fred Chappell continues to astonish. In his new collection of verse, he matches the vitality and grace, the deep intelligence and keenly observant sensibility, that characterize such earlier works as Midquest and Source. First and Last Words revives the traditional practice of supplying new …
World Between the Eyes
Poems
Häftad, 1990
249 kr
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Although Fred Chappell has long been recognised as a novelist of talent and achievement, his poetry has been known to only a few because he has chosen to publish little. Now, in this collection, his work becomes widely available for the first time.The subjects of these poems range from the poet's …
C
Poems
Häftad, 1993
249 kr
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Fred Chappell has long been considered one of the South's finest writers of both fiction and poetry. C not only provides abundant justification for that assessment but also makes clear the inadequacy of geographical stricture; Chappell is indeed a writer of world-class stature.C is of course the …
Gaudy Place
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
441 kr
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Fred Chappell's The Gaudy Place is perhaps the first novel to depict the society of the street people of the New South and their relationship to the middle class. For its wry portrayal of displacement and injustice this novel was awarded the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize.The street-smart teenager Arkie …
New Pleiade
Selected Poems
Häftad, 1998
377 kr
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A New Pleiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets- Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun, and mutual respect of this happy association of poets have resulted …
Family Gathering
Poems
Häftad, 2000
249 kr
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The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other. Like all relations, the extended family in Fred Chappell's Family Gathering has its foibles and strengths- oddballs and know-it-alls, …
Locales
Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Häftad, 2003
297 kr
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The Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 under the inspiration of Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging excellence and recognizing distinction in southern letters. Membership is by invitation only, and the group meets biennially and bestows prizes in fiction, poetry, drama, …
Backsass
Poems
Häftad, 2004
249 kr
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This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from that thoroughly southern term meaning ""irreverent retort,"" ""ironic remark,"" or ""scoffing observation."" The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire. Fred Chappell, finding his …
Shadow Box
Poems
Häftad, 2009
265 kr
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In this sharply innovative collection, renowned poet Fred Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form- the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume's title, each piece consists of an inner world contained, framed, supported by an outer- the two …
As If It Were
Poems
Häftad, 2019
441 kr
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Inspired by ancient, modern, and contemporary writings, Fred Chappell's sprightly new collection of verse, As If It Were, presents tales, anecdotes, pointed stories, and aphorisms to spark the conscience of readers young and old. Playful and even zany, the humor in these poems pulls readers into a …
